Greece Postal Bomb: Athens Postal Bomb Explodes

In Athens, a "postal bomb" exploded inside a "private courier company." A woman was injured when the device detonated in her hands. A second letter bomb was detonated by police. The woman suffered minor burns to her hands. Two suspects carrying weapons and wearing bullet-proof vests were arrested. It is believed one man is a member of a "far-left militant group" known as Fire Conspiracy Cells. Source

TWA Flt 847 Hijacker Dead: Mohammad Ali Hamadeh Dies by US Drone

I read today that Mohammad Ali Hamadeh was blown right into the arms of 72 virgins today, or whatever, by a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan. After being secretly released from a German prison in 2005 for the hijacking of TWA Flt. 847, he went directly to Lebanon and joined with Hizbollah, then to Pakistan's North Waziristan to fight with Islamic Jihad. Ten days before the hijacking, hubby and I flew from Rome to the U.S. on TWA Flt. 847. Islamic jihad was in full jihadi mode 25 years ago.

Hooded man believed to be Mohammad Ali Hamadeh

In 1985 hubby and I enjoyed our last evening in Rome. We had gelati at a sidewalk restaurant in front of a beautiful hotel. The small tables were screened off from the traffic and the gelati was superb. We had ice cream there every night for about a week. We walked back to our hotel by the American Embassy, I think it was the Excelsior, and chatted about how everything was so very beautiful in that historic city.

The next day we boarded TWA Flight 847 and arrived safely back home. 

Ten days later, we watched in horror the same flight number on a tarmac somewhere. The flight from Athens should have traveled to Rome. Instead it was hijacked by Mohammad Ali Hamadeh and second man. After Athens, the flight went to Beirut, then Algiers, back to Beirut, then Algiers and finally Beirut again. Eventually twelve additional terrorists boarded the plane.

A U.S. Navy diver, Robert Stethem, only 24 years-old, was beaten, tortured, shot dead and thrown to the tarmac while the press cameras clicked away, getting it all live. Another U.S. Military man was beaten and tortured, but lived. I believe hostages were held on the plane for about two weeks before it was finally all over.

The hijackers demanded the release of 766 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Both of the hijackers identified themselves as members of Hizbollah.

See folks, it never, never ends. This was June 1985.

In September 1985, a bomb destroyed a British Airways office located just off the Via Veneto...and our sidewalk gelati spot received a hand grenade, injuring 38 people. My memory is that 9 people died, but this report says there were no deaths. Eleven of the injured enjoying their Italian ice cream were Americans. A "Palestinian youth" confessed to the British Airways bombing, and another Palestinian was charged with the sidewalk bombing.

The heavily guarded U.S. Embassy is less than one block from both targets.

A Muslim terrorist organization, the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims, claimed responsibility for the cafe bombing a week ago in an anonymous telephone call in Beirut. The group threatened more attacks.

 Discover The Networks on the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims, says it is a spin-off of the PLO, and is also known as the Abu Nidal Organization and Black September, the perpetrator of the Munich Olympic games massacre in 1972.

On December 27, 1985, the same group that blew up the British Airways office and the sidewalk cafe, walked into the Rome airport to Israel's El Al Airline's desk, opened fire, killed 16 and wounded 80.

Petty Officer Robert Stethem

Petty Officer Robert Stethem was laid to rest in Arlington Cemetery. The Navy launched the USS Stethem in his honor. Today The Robert D. Stethem Memorial Park park is home to 10 ball fields. The U.S. Navy Seabees named the Port Hueneme Naval Construction Training Center Headquarters Building in his honor.

Twenty-five years ago, did you think of these widely-reports events, as Islamic jihad? I didn't.

Duh! Of Course the US Faces the Same Problems as Greece

Cross posted at The Lonely Conservative

Everyone seems to know this except Barack Obama and the democrats. Then again, they probably are fully aware of their destructive economic policies. How can they not be aware? Nobody's that stupid.

Telegraph: Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, fears that America shares many of the same fiscal problems currently haunting Europe. He also believes that European Union must become a federalised fiscal union (in other words with central power to tax and spend) if it is to survive. Just two of the nuggets from one of the most extraordinary press conferences I have been to at the Bank.
What with all the excitement yesterday over our new Government, I never had time to remark on the Inflation Report press conference. Most of our attention was on what King said about the Government’s fiscal plans (a ringing endorsement). But, as Jeremy Warner has written in today’s paper, it was as if King had suddenly been unleashed. Bear in mind King is usually one of the most guarded policymakers in both British and central banking circles. Not yesterday.

You can watch video or read the text of King's remarks here. While I agree that the US shares Greece's debt problems, I would caution the nation states of the EU against creating a federal Leviathan with the power to tax and spend.

On a related note, Republicans have introduced a bill to prevent the European bailout. This news should add a little fuel to the fire. As should the fact that the Fed is swapping dollars for Euros, and the Euro just broke through it's 14 month low. So we're trading our worthless paper for their even more worthless paper, while incurring debt to do so. It's insanity.

Greece Becoming One with EU Painful and Humilitating: Greece Stripped of EU Voting Rights

Membership in the European Union (EU) has turned painful and humiliating for Greece. The country has been stripped of it's EU voting rights until it gets it's financial house in order. A question to citizens: how's that start on a One-World-Government, and the Euro working out for ya now?

 European Union Member States

I get it. The EU may help Greece come out of an economic earthquake, but what about sovereignty? Does sovereignty exist in the EU? Does anyone care anymore?

The EU demands internationalism, not nationalism - because they claim "solidarity as members of the human race."

Concepts of "shared sovereignty," "pooled sovereignty" and "joint national sovereignties" are covers for having one's laws and policies decided by European Union bodies one does not elect, which are not responsible to one's own people and which can have significantly different interests from them.

In practice countries and peoples which surrender their sovereignty to the EU become ever more subject to laws and policies that serve the interests of the bigger EU States.

 From OpenEuropeBlog: Angela Merkel called for EU intervention in December 2009:

As German daily Handelsblatt notes: "until now, Germany had always defended national economic sovereignty and rejected stronger European coordination of economic policy in the Eurozone”. The German Chancellor, says the article, is conscious that any such moves “would diminish the national sovereignty of member states”.

 

Euro Symbol

This from the book Britain in the European Union Today by Duncan Watts:

The most obvious constitutional change brought about by membership of the EU is ...a surrender of the UK's parliamentary sovereignty to the primacy of Community law.

The Telegraph published a telling view of the EU in July 2007 about the effect of the Lisbon Treaty, which took was signed in December 2007 and went into effect in December 2009. The Lisbon Treaty replaced the EU Constitution, but kept much of the Constitution's tenents. The article points out that Gordon Brown "hid the fact" that the new treaty means "transfers of sovereignty" from Britain.

Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker said Brown was right to hide the loss from the people/

Britain is different. Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?"...

There is a single legal personality for the EU, the primacy of European law, a new architecture for foreign and security policy, there is an enormous extension in the fields of the EU's powers, there is Charter of Fundamental Rights," he said, listing elements of the old constitution in the proposed treaty.

The European Union, duplicated on a much larger scale through the United Nations, is the secret dream, stewing in its own juice until world leaders like Barack Obama can bring their plans for a one-world-government to fruition. If you have doubts, educate yourself on Senator Barack Obama's senate bill 2433, posing as a companion bill to the UNMDG, to eradicate poverty, through adherence to the United Nation's Millennium Development Goal (UNMDG). Be afraid. Be very afraid. Read The Evil in Senate Bill 2433. This is all part of a much grander scheme. Europe is showing the way...the wrong way.